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> Whole nearline SATA drives are significantly less expensive per byte than LTO8 tapes, even ignoring LTO drive/library costs. In Germany, using non-bulk price
by est31 6y ago
> Whole nearline SATA drives are significantly less expensive per byte than LTO8 tapes, even ignoring LTO drive/library costs.
In Germany, using non-bulk prices, HDDs seem to start at 19€ per TB while I could find multi-write LTO8 tapes costing 8€ per (compression disabled) TB.
- nullc 6y agoOh. That is a massive change over the last 6 months. Okay, they're much closer now.
- throwaway2048 6y agothere was a huge patent fight that delayed the production of LTO8 tapes for quite some time, when they finally released they commanded a huge premium, they are still inflated in price compared to LTO7 tapes per GB.
- Dylan16807 6y agoThe option has also been there to format LTO-7 tapes in LTO-8 drives and get 9TB each. That cost 7€/TB a couple years ago and 6€/TB today.
- syshum 6y agoWhile the media is is cheaper LTO8 drives are not. A single Disk writer with manual change can be around 4-5K USD. That is alot of tapes to recover the cost savings over HDD
- LorenPechtel 6y agoYup. This article made me recheck the economics of tape backup. You'll have to have a lot of data before it becomes cheaper than simply duplicating the storage. Worried about ransomware? Have a dedicated backup machine that does nothing else, it's as isolated as possible, it reads the data to be backed up and writes it to the backup drives.
- est31 6y agoIndeed, it's not economical for most people. Even rental is probably not something that most people would bother with. Most people are served enough by the one or two HDDs they own, maybe a NAS.
- pnutjam 6y agoDon't forget to average the cost of your drives and robots.
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